Steve Squyres
Steve Squyres
Steven W. Squyresis the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His research area is in planetary sciences, with a focus on large solid bodies in the solar system such as the terrestrial planets and the moons of the Jovian planets. Squyres is principal investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. He is the recipient of the 2004 Carl Sagan Memorial Award and the 2009 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Communication in...
remember scientist i-can
I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.
rocks looks cleaning
The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.
trying stuff figure-skating
That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.
mistake thinking views
Is there water still on Mars? I don't have a view on that because we don't have good data to answer that question. One of the biggest mistakes you can make if you're a scientist is to think you know the answer, or wish for a certain answer, before you actually have it.
past trying borrowed-time
These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.
mars not-sure martians
Mars is telling us something. I'm not sure what it is because It's speaking martian. But it's telling us something
adventure giving people
I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like.
taken mars earth
The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.